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"A federal jury has ordered Taser International Inc. to pay $10 million to the family of a Charlotte teenager who died after a police officer shocked him with a Taser."
The Mecklenburg County medical examiner said Turner’s heart was disease-free and attributed the teen’s death to “agitated state, stress and use of conducted energy device.”
With tight budgets I wonder how this lawsuit going to be paid for.
Or prevent CMPD tazing our youth in future
What do you mean? The corporation will pay for the suit, has nothing to do with CMPD.
Why should they be prevented from tasing the yoots? The results will net better than to be shot with a .40 caliber. They want to act stupid and act like a thug then pay the price.
"The Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer shocked 17-year-old Darryl Turner for more than 30 seconds during a March 2008 incident at a northeast Charlotte Food Lion. The teenager fell to the floor during the altercation and then died."
CMPD settled with the family last year for $500K because the officer held down the trigger for 37 seconds instead of 5.
Today's award is against the device manufacturer and says they were negligent on the danger of death.
I imagine the size of the award will be pared down quite a bit and I also bet Taser will state they never instructed any PD to hold the trigger down for 37 seconds.
But if they didn't warn for what happens when the device is abused, they will be on the hook for something.
What do you mean? The corporation will pay for the suit, has nothing to do with CMPD.
Why should they be prevented from tasing the yoots? The results will net better than to be shot with a .40 caliber. They want to act stupid and act like a thug then pay the price.
These mirror my thoughts. While I hate to see anyone (yes, even a criminal) lose their life....let's face it....the kid didn't HAVE to get tasered. He could have complied with the officer.
Also, to those that have seen the surveillance footage of this incident....it appears the taser had like ZERO effect on the perpetrator. It looked like he walked right out of the store. Weird.
Apparently this will have to be researched and reviewed due to what is going on
I was tased and I didn't die
Also, for those asking about the device being abused...
People have volunteered for 1 minute+ taser hits and they had no adverse side effects
Lose-lose for CMPD with anything
In most people, with healthy hearts, the jolt from a taser should do nothing more than what it is intended to do. In some individuals with known or unknown cardiac history, the taser can convert the heart rhythm to ventricular fibrillation- where the lower chambers of the heart quit contracting, and just quiver. This is a survivable rhythm, if the person is provided CPR and defibrillation in a timely manner.
I support CMPD's nonlethal use of the taser, but I feel anyone trained to use it should also be trained in CPR and AED. In both cases (last night's as well as the young man at Food Lion), the amount of time it would take for ANY first responder to get to the patient would be too long. Typically there is severe and irrepairable brain damage after 4-6 minutes of pulselessness. I can almost guarantee MEDICs' response time was >6 minutes in both cases.
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